Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-12

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wick.
a shipment of beet cattle from Colorado
City to Chicago passed through on the
Texas and Pacific yesterday.
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Polk Brothers of Fort Worth are max
ing preparations for a considerable exhi-
hilton of fine stock st the Dallas fair.
On the 18th Of this month they expect to
rec Give q shipment Of fine graded horses
which they will hold ct their yards in
this city to be seen by local admirers OF
fine horse flesh. They will have among
others the half brother of Brown Hal,
sired by Tom Hal, whose record is 2:13;
also g Lexington mare with her colt,
sired by Enfield, record 2:261,
one Of the fuest roadsters in this
country. These are some of the best
stock to De found, standard bred, and
the animsls which these gentlemen will
show will aggregate in value $4,000.
They will also have on exhibition bunch
Of fifteen thoroughbred Jersey cows.
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A statement made in recent issue oil
the ST. Paul (Minn.) Farmer expresses
what appears TO be The facts OF the condi-
ton Of the cattle industry st present: "A
hard winter has decimated the cattle on
the northern ranges, while millions Of
acres in Colorado, Nebraska and Texas,
lately given up to beef production, have
been entered by homesteaders, who even
in these arid regions will try the doubt
full experiments Of grain growing in
stead OF stock raising. The most de-
structive drouth of quarter of century
through 800, 900 square miles of the corn
belt has shortened up the corn crop, and
forced upon the market large numbers of
stock Of Indifferent quality, which, while
at present 'besring' the market, will be
out OF the way before another year." To
the short sighted producer of cattle the
conditions of the market existing now
would seem to indicate that the sooner he
rids himself of his connections with the
trade the safer he would be. The results
Of experience go to show that the proper
time to enter into the production
OF g. great staple of COM
merce is when prices are
low and there is q general rush to get
out of the business. Beef being, it
might be said, the greatest staple, there
will certainly always be demand for it
and tie up ,ly OF cattle, which regu' ates
the market, being normal, the prices paid
for them will be normal. The cause of
the present depression is to be found in
the late overproduction and the resultant
fact that the market has been over-sup-
Piled from all over the country. The
only question now is when the surplus
stock is sold of will not the market fall
back into its old time position,
and the question is It's own
answer. R2isers have heretofore
been ebstrs ctedly intent upon increas-
ing The number of their herds to the ex-
cIusion of the more important matter of
the improvement Of the quality. The
same qusntity of feed is required for
poor IS for good animal and growers
have covered all the available western
country with herds of the most indifer-
ent quality Of cattle when much less graz.
ing land would have sufficed for the same
value Of better grade stock. Had the
American producer paid more attention
to the production Of good stock than 10
quantity of his hero when the man with the
hoe made MS appearance the st0ckman
would not have been compelled to give
up his pastures and put his beef On the
market.